This is going to be your first eviction, and it's going to be an expensive learning experience.

I heard on a bp podcast to look where Starbucks is investing to setup new shops because there people obviously evaluate markets to sell more coffee.

Let me know if you'd like to meet for coffee to talk real estate.

I use Google Calendar for this because I find it to be the easiest and it's free, all you need is a Google account.After putting your most important daily events on your calendar you now have a visual of the time frames you have to be an agent.

Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not something to be made or modified lightly - it has to be properly designed and properly made in order to function well.So I have this retail store of about 1100 sqft that someone wants to take for a small coffee shop with the ability to bake.My question is where do I start searching for someone to design/compute small walk-in cooler, grease trap, vent-a-hood, stove and HVAC on top of that so all this could become useable without anyone getting burned.From my past experience I have local mexican crews who can do any and all of the listed things and they'd do them relatively well except they won;t ever be designed to actually work well together.On the other end of the spectrum I've worked with american general contractors and they tend to cost 2-3 times the Mexican crews and, at least in my case, ended up delivering about same end result (in all fairness it was only kitchen remodeling, not design from ground up; but statement stands valid and I was able to later do almost the same at literally third of the cost).Your expertise is appreciated.

It would be a criminal act to do a lease option or even a leaseback on a short sale if that was not disclosed and, there would NEVER be an approval for a short sale with that disclosure so, if it did happen, the borrower lied.

Get to be an expert.

Curious about real estate investing environment here and wondering if there are investors would like to meet for a chat over coffee.

People seem pretty open to meeting for coffee.

Won't be an issue.